This collection of essays brings to college students and the general public a scholarly, yet accessible and provocative text in Native American Studies. The contributors draw upon their expertise in such diverse disciplines as economics, education, film studies, history, linguistics, literature, museum studies, popular culture, and religion. Each essay highlights a particular aspect of Native American experience, from the oppressive indoctrination of boarding schools to the successful strategic planning of Indian casinos to the exciting creativity of Native American literature. In addition, many of the essays introduce the reader to the disciplines through which we can approach this important and fascinating topic, engagingly taking the reader through the process of how historians or economists or literary scholars go about their work.
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The Editor: Dane Morrison is Assistant Professor of History at Salem State College and Visiting Lecturer at Tufts University, both in Massachusetts. He is the author of A Praying People: Massachusett Acculturation and the Failure of the Puritan Mission, 1600-1690 (Peter Lang, 1995).
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Originalhardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. XVIII, 430 S., Abb. Lightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Foreword, Ron Welburn - Preface, Dane Morrison -- IN THE WORLD -- I. History, Language, Identity -- 1. "In Whose Hands Is the Telling of the Tale?", Dane Morrison -- 2. The Native Languages of North America: Structure and Survival, Sally Midgette -- 3. Kill the Indian, Save the Child: Cultural Genocide and the Boarding School, Debra K. S. Barker -- RECLAIMING POWER -- II. Educational Strategies -- 4. American Indian Education, Wayne J. Stein -- 5. The Case for Native American Studies, Jon Reyhner -- 6. Why Native American Studies? A Canadian First Nations Perspective, William Asikihack -- III. Economic Survival -- 7. Taking up the Challenge: Fundamental Principles of Economic Development in Indian Country, Miriam R. Jorgensen -- 8. American Indians and Gambling: Economic and Social Impacts, Wayne J. Stein -- 9. Native American Industry: Basket Weaving among the Wabanaki, Pauleena MacDougall -- IV. Spirit and Power -- 10. The Catholic Missions to the Native Americans, Ross Enochs -- 11. Stolen Spirits: An Illustrative Case of Indigenous Survival Through Religious Freedom, Gabrielle A. Tayac -- 12. "The Supreme Law of the Land": Sources of Conflict between Native Americans and the Constitutional Order, Eric Mazur -- PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS -- V. Voices and Words -- 13. Place, Vision, and Identity in Native American Literatures, Robert M. Nelson -- 14. Native American Imaginative Spaces, Irene Moser -- 15. Building on the Myth: Recovering Native American Culture in Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace, Tom Matchie -- 16. "What Does It Tell Us That We Are So Easily Deceived?" Impostor Indians, Laura Browder -- VI. Images and Icons -- 17. Tomahawkin' the Redskins: "Indian" Images in Sports and Commerce, Jane Frazier -- 18. Refraining the Hollywood Indian: A Feminist Re-reading of Powwow Highway and Thunderheart, Ellen L. Arnold -- 19. Broken Arrows: Images of Native Americans in the Popular Western, Mary Alice Money -- VII. "A Usable Indian": The Current Controversy in Museums -- 20. The Politics of Repatriation, Dan L. Monroe -- 21. Museums and American Indians: Ambivalent Partners Karen Coody Cooper. ISBN 0820439169 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 788. Artikel-Nr. 1190524
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